Marco Chiesi

XML Team Solutions

Enhance your sports posts with rich, detailed metadata about games, teams, and players, and with live game photos.
SportsPost 2.0 allows WordPress editors to search for player names of athletes in major North American sports leagues, and drop their names directly into their post. These names can then hyperlink to externally hosted Player Profile pages, with expanded news, statistics, and photos of those players.
Bloggers can also optionally register at http://SportsForecaster.com/affiliates to generate advertising revenue from their links.
SportsPost 2.0 also allows editors to search or browse the over 3 million sports photos from Icon Sportswire — a leading sports photo wire service. Selected photos can be inserted directly into any post — without leaving WordPress. Photos can also be imported into WordPress’s Media Library.
Photos are for editorial usage only, and editors must register at IconSportswire.com for an account and login credentials. Photos can licensed using prepaid Credits (no long-term contract necessary), or can be downloaded as part of a monthly subscription package.
SportsPost 2.0 also includes “preview functionality” that allows WordPress administrators to add Sports Widgets from XML Team onto designated locations of any page. Our forthcoming 3.0 release will make it easy to select widgets and drop them in place. Visit the “Support” tab and drop us a message if you’d like more details.
Future versions will allow editors to:
<ul>
<li>Select Sports Widgets that will automatically update your website with current sports coverage.</li>
<li>Identify posts as being Game Previews or Game Recaps for particular sporting events, and then automatically include supplemental game information.</li>
</ul>

SportsPost – Enriched Sports Posts

Enhance your sports posts with rich, detailed metadata about games, teams, and players.

hockeydata

This plugin provides WordPress widgets to implement the available statistics widgets of <a href="https://apidocs.hockeydata.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">hockeydata Live.Online Statistics API</a>, like standings, schedule or top scorers. All of these widgets start with “hockeydata LOS”.
To implement a widget, e.g. the schedule, on a WordPress page, you need to install a WordPress plugin (e.g. <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/siteorigin-panels/" rel="ugc">Page Builder by SiteOrigin</a>) which allows adding WordPress widgets on simple pages. Alternatevely, you may also use shortcodes.
<h3>Shortcodes</h3>
All hockeydata LOS widgets can also be implemented with shortcodes:
<pre><code>[hd-los-game-full-report] = hockeydata.los.Game.FullReport
[hd-los-game-slider] = hockeydata.los.GameSlider
[hd-los-game-ticker] = hockeydata.los.GameTicker
[hd-los-knockout-stage] = hockeydata.los.KnockoutStage
[hd-los-knockout-stage-compact] = hockeydata.los.KnockoutStage.Compact
[hd-los-leaders] = hockeydata.los.Leaders
[hd-los-live-games] = hockeydata.los.LiveGames
[hd-los-player-full-page] = hockeydata.los.Player.FullPage
[hd-los-players] = hockeydata.los.Players
[hd-los-schedule] = hockeydata.los.Schedule
[hd-los-standings] = hockeydata.los.Standings
[hd-los-team-full-page] = hockeydata.los.Team.FullPage
[hd-los-team-stats] = hockeydata.los.TeamStats
</code></pre>
All widgets options must be provided in lower case with hyphens, not as defined in the JavaScript API in CamelCase format. E.g. <code>division-id</code> instead of <code>divisionId</code>. More examples:
<pre><code>additional-columns › additionalColumns
column-set › columnSet
show-legend › showLegend
</code></pre>
Shortcode example:
<pre><code>[hd-los-schedule division-id=ebel-gd]
</code></pre>
<h3>Upgrade Notices</h3>
If you upgrade from a version lower than 1.2.0 please
<ol>
<li>Check the settings in Settings > hockeydata LOS.</li>
<li>Replace widgets and shortcodes.</li>
<li>Check all widget links (rowLink, playerLink, etc.).</li>
</ol>
Ad 2.: In version 1.2.0 we had to add the prefixes <code>hd-</code> and <code>hd_</code> to the shortcodes and widget id’s, respectively. Unfortunately, all of your widgets you implemented prior to version 1.2.0 won’t work anymore. But there’s a silver lining:
You can use a plugin to replace all old shortcodes and widgets at once. Here is an example of how to do this with “Better Search Replace”:
<ol>
<li>Install and activate the plugin “Better Search Replace” (go to Plugins › Add New and search for “Better Search Replace” or download from <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-search-replace/" rel="ugc">https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-search-replace/</a>).</li>
<li>Go to Tools › Better Search Replace</li>
<li>Replace the following strings (do not activate the option “Case-Insensitive?”):</li>
</ol>
Important: before replacing, please <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups" rel="nofollow ugc">back up your database and files</a>.
<pre><code>Search for Replace with

[los-game-full-report [hd-los-game-full-report
[los-game-slider [hd-los-game-slider
[los-leaders [hd-los-leaders
[los-player-full-page [hd-los-player-full-page
[los-schedule [hd-los-schedule
[los-standings [hd-los-standings
[los-team-full-page [hd-los-team-full-page
[los-team-stats [hd-los-team-stats
los_widget_game_full_report hd_los_widget_game_full_report
los_widget_game_slider hd_los_widget_game_slider
los_widget_leaders hd_los_widget_leaders
los_widget_player_full_page hd_los_widget_player_full_page
los_widget_schedule hd_los_widget_schedule
los_widget_standings hd_los_widget_standings
los_widget_team_full_page hd_los_widget_team_full_page
los_widget_team_stats hd_los_widget_team_stats
LOS_Widget_GameFullReport HD_LOS_Widget_GameFullReport
LOS_Widget_GameSlider HD_LOS_Widget_GameSlider
LOS_Widget_Leaders HD_LOS_Widget_Leaders
LOS_Widget_PlayerFullPage HD_LOS_Widget_PlayerFullPage
LOS_Widget_Schedule HD_LOS_Widget_Schedule
LOS_Widget_Standings HD_LOS_Widget_Standings
LOS_Widget_TeamFullPage HD_LOS_Widget_TeamFullPage
LOS_Widget_TeamStats HD_LOS_Widget_TeamStats
</code></pre>
Of course you only need to replace strings containing the shortcodes and widgets you’re using. After you’re done replacing you can remove the plugin.

hockeydata LOS

Add statistic widgets by hockeydata with a view clicks.

SportsPost – Enriched Sports Posts vs hockeydata LOS